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I’ve had the original version 2nd allin conversion since 1958. Yes, 1958. My Uncle gave it to me for my 10th birthday. I originally loaded it with hacksawed off shortened 348 Winchester ammo, and a little powder with cotton balls as wadding to take up space,from firecrackers and some oblong lead sinkers ( the holes in the middle were plugged). Later of course I got some brass from Dixie gun works, and the rest is history. Bore is still almost perfect. I was given the rifle in hopes that it would spur me to collect guns. Boy howdy did it ever succeed. It’s been a life long hobby. Buffalo Bill called his: “Lucretia Borgia” because she was so deadly. Part of his gun is at his museum. There is a picture of him holding her on the internet.

I've read that the 45-70 has been described as a black powder cartridge with a trajectory similar to that of a thrown water mellon.

I got a very nice Japanese type 99 that was in a restaurant in Akron Ohio that was painted brown. The place was being torn down and that Type 99 was in the dumpster. It was all matching numbers early war in good condition. I cleaned off the brown paint restored it and shot it for several years then sold it.

Sad to hear about Paul,,great guy,

Hello Sir! Thank you so much for posting this! There is not much info on UA-cam about these so this is great. I wanted to ask, are you aware of ones of a similar barrel length without the bayonet lug? I know the shortest ones (30” barrel) tended to be without but I am not sure of the longer ones. I have seen some online with a similar length barrel being shown as such, but to me it doesn’t make sense as to why they would go to the trouble of machining the barrel and then not add the lug. Were they knocked off perhaps at some point? I am really curious about these conversions as I am actually in the process of buying what I believe is one. It looks incredibly similar to yours, the barrel is just slightly shorter, cut back right behind where your bayonet lug is. I am also going to see about getting the book “confederate rifles and muskets” by John Murphy which apparently goes quite into detail about these conversions. Again I appreciate the content, I have liked and subscribed and look forward to any future videos!

I good friend of mine an ex Brit has 4 of these and one he had converted to 45-70. Now for some history that nearly every American has not idea off. In 1866 the Feenhigan Brotherhood , Irish imigrants fromI Ireland tried to take Canada to barter for the release of Ireland from British rule, the battle of Ridgeway heights followed in Ontario, no matter what anybody says it was a draw so the US came and collected the Feehnigans took them back to the US. The next year the Irish brotherhood tried again from Vermont. By that time the British had equiped the Canadian Militia with Snieder 577 rifles , 40,000 of them were sent. With the combination of Scnieders and Ballards (bought by the farmers on Quebec from their Vermont friends ) and crushed the Irish Brotherhood at the border of Vermont and Quebec. A cannon was captured from the Irish and it now stands at the border crossing on a pedistal as a testimate to the power of the Scnieder 577. Ps the Irish came 2 more times and each time they were decimated by the Scnieder 577.

Gonna try that

Always fire one handed Bisley style.

Using the ram rod upside down. Narrow end first

Interesting content, well presented. You have a winner here.

New subscriber dang sir much respect for that

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Bovine hand grenade.

Hey man this is good information you are doing people a big service

Brilliant. How do rednecks survive to old age?

Wow, map gas, high roller!! Shits expensive! 😅 New sub here

Thank you for re-doing this one! Very much appreciated... Stay Safe and God Bless

Thanks.

Thanks. I've been trying to tell a dude on UA-cam who shoots Indian flintlocks to stop loading from his horn. So far, no luck. Can you imagine the surgeon who'd have to remove one of those shards of horn from your gut, IF you survived?

Cool

Great job sir!

Ha! You guys just wanted to see something go boom! (Like me!)

That was impressive. Everyone that handles bp should see that.

Nice demo sir. 👏

Your wife encouraged you to buy a gun! She sounds like a keeper. I have a conversion with an 1863 lock plate & screwed on top trapdoor conversion in very nice condition. It's a fun & fully functional piece of history. Thanks for your presentation.

I have an 1863 in its original configuration as a rifle-musket, I’d like to get a trapdoor conversion later on. Thank you for posting

A beautiful piece of history with some nice shooting, very good video

Great to see an old white male having a go

I always use a powder measure for my loads and never expose the powder load to the muzzle until I have swabbed the barrel and waited at least a minute to load. Has worked for me so far. I don't get in any rush to reload if I was in a rush I'd grab the AR instead.

Oops! I see I said Martini Cadets. I meant to say Martini Henry guns.

Sorry the comments were turned off. Didn't realize that until now. We value feedback from others.

That little guy is pretty much a pistol but slightly worse

The base plug was not pegged nor was it sealed with Beeswax the parameters were not the same. So the conclusion that Pyrodex is safer if that is what you concluded is false the horns would have to be the same!

Nice amazing and 👏👌 powerful gun awesome video!

Nice

Nice

That was pretty neat!

That was awesome!

Smokeless powder has a burn rate, black powder explodes

Booth did have a 1860 Colt Army too.

You're not going to murder some innocent water mellons are you!! ??

Mmh,maybe the Deringer needed a slightly bigger ball? I have seen one of similar caliber doing much more damage than this,not making it explode,but creating noticeable splits in it.

These weren't exactly equal tests, you removed the plug and any means to hold it in place other than friction, so your end results would vary, if the plug had been pinned in as the black powder one was the result may have been different if not exactly the same.

Of course it exploded you made it into a pipe bomb by sealing the fuse in the spout!

Nice I love these old guns!

Pyrodex burns slower than BP. Try using that in a powder horn.

About dang time someone blew this b.s. myth to bits! Thank you!

Thanks for posting the video. For what it’s worth, the camera was too far away, even for the close-up. It would be more interesting to see everything very close, so we can see detail of the match, lock and pan. Thanks!